What would happen if...

A President, who won his/her second term with a different running mate then his/her first, dies? Do the Presidency go to the VP, or to the running mate?
 

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A President, who won his/her second term with a different running mate then his/her first, dies? Do the Presidency go to the VP, or to the running mate?

What exactly are you asking here?
Is it this-
President Theodore Johnson ran for a second term with the senate majority leader, Andrew Roosevelt, because his current vice president, Franklin Jackson said that "he was getting old, and needed to spend time with his family. But Theodore dies on December 1st after reelection.

So my guess would be VP Jackson here would be President until VP-elect Roosevelt is sworn in in January.
 
So...the POTUS has chosen a new VP as a running mate..wins...and then dies? If it is before January 20th of the next year (odd number)..first VP becomes POTUS and running mate becomes VP on January 20. The New president could..if he wanted to be a prick..appoint a new VP (because of the 25th Amendment)..but Congress would have to confirm the choice..and I doubt they would do that..knowing there is a VP elect in the wings. The appointed VP would only hold office until the inauguration on 1/20.
 
What exactly are you asking here?
Is it this-
President Theodore Johnson ran for a second term with the senate majority leader, Andrew Roosevelt, because his current vice president, Franklin Jackson said that "he was getting old, and needed to spend time with his family. But Theodore dies on December 1st after reelection.

So my guess would be VP Jackson here would be President until VP-elect Roosevelt is sworn in in January.
Yeah, that was what I was talking about.

So...the POTUS has chosen a new VP as a running mate..wins...and then dies? If it is before January 20th of the next year (odd number)..first VP becomes POTUS and running mate becomes VP on January 20. The New president could..if he wanted to be a prick..appoint a new VP (because of the 25th Amendment)..but Congress would have to confirm the choice..and I doubt they would do that..knowing there is a VP elect in the wings. The appointed VP would only hold office until the inauguration on 1/20.
Thanks. So, the first VP gets the term that the Prez ran for?
 
it would be the same situation as happened in Florida in 1998. Governor lLawton Chiles died after the election. His Lt Governor, who had lost the election, filled IIRC the less the two months of Chiles term. When the
term expired newly elected Jeb Bush took office.
 
it would be the same situation as happened in Florida in 1998. Governor lLawton Chiles died after the election. His Lt Governor, who had lost the election, filled IIRC the less the two months of Chiles term. When the
term expired newly elected Jeb Bush took office.

Except this scenario is a President who had just won reelection dies, not one who had already not run for reelection.
 
The current Vice President would take over and finish out the remainder of the President's first term (we're assuming, as it is now, he/she can't run for a third term) and then the Vice President-elect would then become president.

This is all according to Section 3 the 20th Amendment:

If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
 
The current Vice President would take over and finish out the remainder of the President's first term (we're assuming, as it is now, he/she can't run for a third term) and then the Vice President-elect would then become president.
Thanks. That is interesting. So, we would have three presidents in this scenario, one which had a short term.
 
The closest it's ever come to happening in real life is probably 1944. Had the re-elected FDR died in late November - a few months earlier than OTL - Henry Wallace would have been President until Jan 20, when Truman would have succeeded him. In theory, I suppose, the Eelctoral College could have voted for someone else, but that is highly unlikely.
 
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